I have a Samba share that is mounted as a CIFS mount via autofs. I would like to have users be able to easily access this mount point from their home directories/desktop.
If I create a symlink to the ...

When undocking my notebook from the docking station with its wired ethernet connection I let network manager automatically switch on the wifi radio.
Upon entering the docking station I let it switch ...

I have a samba share set to mount in /media/foo when I boot, and on my desktop I have some symlinks pointing to locations within this share.
If my network flakes out, the symlinks report as broken, ...

I have been mounting a network drive from /etc/fstab in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS for a while now but after installing the latest updates, it no longer works. The relevant fstab line is:
// Unit / media / mnt ...

The other night my breaker tripped and took out the power in my office. Upon reboot I found that my boot got hung up and it was saying "files/public/" would not mount so I was able to skip or enter ...

I am in a SSH session to Ubuntu 14.04 and I am trying to mount a Windows 98SE share using the following command:
sudo mount -t cifs //192.168.0.2/uniserv /tmp/uniserv/ -o sec=lanman,servern=Uniplus1
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Ever since I moved from 13.10 to 14.04, I observe an annoying effect whenever a samba share is mounted to my work station. When I open Nautilus, or when I look up /run/user/1000/gvfs it freezes for ...

I observed a strange phenomenon with my Rhythmbox: it seems that Rhythmbox is constantly downloading a MP3 file while playing it.
My setup
My home server (hostname nas) which host the MP3 files uses ...

I have a couple of network shares mounted with cifs in fstab and it works fine when the network is up. However, this is a laptop and often my wi-fi connection isn't up when mounting is triggered by ...

i'm trying to use cifs-utils to get files in another machine. In the other machine i've installed samba. Everything works fine if a try in the same machine (the one with samba) using cifs-util, but it ...

As this is a very basic topic, I have read many documentation about it online and none of them seems to work, I have tried several ways but I want to know if anybody has been successful with this so ...

I'm having a weird problem. I used to run the mount command manually to link a folder on my PLEX server with a folder on my NAS. It was fine until yesterday, but I had to halt the PLEX server and when ...

I've been going through and pouring over resource for the past few hours and I cannot get my box to connect to my friends network drive.
My friend doesn't use linux, but he's setup the network share ...

I have a Ubuntu 14.04 server that will lock up after an undetermined amount of time when you attempt to tab-auto-complete the path of a CIFS share in the /mnt directory. I mount the share and it seems ...

I am running Ubuntu Server CLI i386 version and have mounted several network shares by editing the /etc/fstab file and then issuing a mount -a command. All 4 of these shares work, except I am having a ...

I have a ubuntu home server 12.10 that is available over the internet for SSH connections. I also have my ubuntu laptop that I use at home and when on the road. What I would like is that during the ...

We have 2 ubuntu PCs (Naida using mate and 13.10? using cinnamon) plus android phones.
Our files are on an NAS, Iomega Home Media Network Hard Drive 2TB uses a Linux OS I think, that was working fine ...

Is there a way so that when users create new files under a cifs mounted share the new files get the right ownership from the user who created the file instead of that user i used to mount the share.
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My sw ntfs shared directory is an installation directory on a windows 2008 server.
I'm using Ubuntu 12.04
I did the mkdir /media/sw and smbclient -L successfully... then while in root I tried
mount ...